The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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VIII. XV
Cimtiitc. Urc<?r Ouitm. Oklahoma. Pridav, Ociobci 16 1914
No 23
FORFARMERS
BETTERMENT
Big Packing t-irm Utg«
I hem to Drop * o Much
Cotton and Plant Hogs.
tint Into vffvrt a carefully pl*n
J • ampelgti to Mp iHr farm
wl started in live stock rat -
Jug ami at prwonl are Npiriallt-
"fg en hog*.
The- Oklahoma Stork Yard*
Co., are ufefrlng to place a rep-
r«Mutative in any community.
nulk It order* for pure bred or
grade now*, until a sufficient
.... .. . ... . * number have been *poken far to
• he Knt^rpriite Ik in receipt of .. y
,i 0 . trantee the disponing of a car
Uie iolomng from the firm of . ,TK„.... . . .
. . „i */. ... ' Then thJn car In purchased
.•iurrisACo.. packer*, which hits 1
Ibe nail cquarely on the head.
Their proportion to help farm
ers t.i get a atari in the hoy rais- j
d 4/UjtiiieM/i is worth looking In-
PATRONIZE SELLS STOLEN
HONE PEOPLE AUTOMOBILE
When Homo Merchant. Go M.L. King. Forme. Reform
Down.SdioolsandChurcli't story Inmate, Again in Ihe
Will Go With I hem. Motbee of the Law.
2035 BALES
AT GRANITE
to. Their letter is a* follow*:
Chicgao, October 7. ISM
Mr. hditor:—
Action taken by Morris & Co.,
and other* in purchasing cotton
throughout the south and south-
we-t at 10c per pound has offer-
ed at best only temporary relief
fr rr i serious -ituation.
F >:• y car a, thousands.of farm '
orr right at your door. :u; well a .
your fca bars, merchants and ,
The report has been started by j M. L. King, a paroled convict
~™, prising pre** agent* that from the State Reformatory, in
d shipped t< this particular *',me lht mail order hous- j again in trouble. Two weeks ago
n.n'unity and «ach farmer se- 1 PW>K«lng to take cotton he phoned U< Bookkeeper Price
• h t i t portion of the *• tcr <*nt per p und and pay jtlutt he knew where he could get
H he has previously ordered at *' 1 11 " «nerrhanoi*e at their j,., automobile very cheap and
. tual 'ai J' ad basis cost This true prices. So far we have L^l Mr. I'rice if he wanted it.
enables the small farmer who!1'"* « ble to get anything j;,;r. i rjce told him yes. and
an buy only two or three head, I definite a
ffmll wheat and fall rye can be
> own in all the cotton growing
. d!#ti tfU tn oklahoma. With or*
idinar) conditions, either rrop
'will furnish pasture for work
animals through winter ami
early springg It will almost ~~~
(carry hog. and cattle Then, in E*pect to Pais the
[the prlng. if the crop* are in Total of Last Years Crop
,g Mil condition. they may lie left by Saturday Night.
;lor grand and will thus furnish J — * -
I the first ca*h crop which the cot-1 '-'p °nc o'clock yexterday,
* ' vw' | '
t1 get them on the same basis j propose to do. if anything. It is
to just what they t King brought the machine to
. :.'J1y loan the firmer sufficient
funds ;md protect themselves by
mortgages covering the hogs.
i'hs local banks may in turn dis-
.... , . .count their notes with their cor-
e. mi '.o.w men have depend i respondents in larger cities,
n cotton crops. T0 show the thoroughness of
-prc-r<-d when bu.-ope|,he plan „ 0utline<1 jn ok|aho.
'arload. will be strings to the deal. No
-Should Ihe farmers be short j°ne has ever accused these big
of cash, the local banks will gen- (houses of a lack of business sense
ne plunged in a war is
I ma. the Stock Yards National
mall ■ , f serious concern to cv-1 !!ank locate(, ,, oklahoma City
i I' nvri mai'nliunt nml , .
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man. merchant and
' ic. .:i your territory.
. trar --e to say, the :'iffn ulti-j
ott-Mi armors were nowhere
ioilected in live stock and grain
ising states. Live stock values
d d not go to smash neither have
grain values shown any down-
v.ard tendency. Instead live
.stock and grain raisers have
found a uniformly steady mar
ket for their products and have
received payment in cash.
Now that the cotton states
have to some extent obtained re-
relief, what is being done to pre-
vent a repition of a similiar sit-
uation in the future?
Today the*e is—
A large surplus of cotton, and
a dull, weak market.
A world wide shortage of live
stock and a strong active de-
mand for cattle, hogs, sheep and
all grains.
To raise live stock it is essen-
*■ tial to have grains and grasses
I to sustain them.
We are not advocating any
policy looking towards the elim-
ination of cotton raising among
the farmers because cotton is the
south's natural plant, but we do
most emphatically urge that less
^reliability be placed upon any
one crop. Feed crops necessari-
ly must be raised to feed the live
stock.
With only a slight reduction
of. cotton growing areas, farmers
can easily raise sufficient feed
for their stock.
Naturally provision must be
made for carrying over feed for
the stock as a protection against
drouths, and a silo or two should
be on every'farm
Each state has its own pecul-
iar difficulties which may be
worked out satisfactorily by the
practical farmer assisted by the
agricultural experts supported
by the Federal and State govern-
ments.
Vast columns of literature
have been written by more or
less so-called agricultural writ-
er.-. A movement has been start-
ed in Oklahoma, however, that is
backed by common sense. The
Oklahoma National Stock Yard."
is handling a good dr:<l of this
paper for country banks where
it i: properly endorsee! by their
"fievrs. Of course the local
' anker, being on the ground,
7)ust play an important part in
this campaign because he must
' now the farmer well enough to
be willing to make the loan and
' dorse the paper or the larger
banks cannot be expected to han-
11c it. Jobbers and merchants
can help this movement wonder-
pully and it almost means their
salvation .to do so.
Live stock, cotton and grain
will forever insure the financial
independence of your state and
its citizens.
RABBIT FOOT BILL
Snys He Will Live Throuirh It Alright
But Wont Look Very Well
Rabbit Foot Bill," the big
auctioneer, who farms when
*here are no sales to cry, came
nto The Enterprise office Sat-
Mrday. He mussed up a pile of
exchanges on the desk, selected
what he wanted to read over
Sunday, and then said, "Gimme
a pencil. I want to figure a lit-
tle." Being supplied with this
article, he soliloquized as follows
— "I'll make twenty bales of cot-
ton this year after paying the
■*ent. Yes, I'll make that flying
to my part. Twenty bales at $30
\ bale: that's six hundred dol-
lars. Take what I owe from
hat. CFiirures.) Oh, well, I'll
live through it ail right but I
won't look like anything when I
do."
YOl'R FALL COLD NEEEDS A"
TENTION
No use to fussand try to wear it
out. It will wear you out in stead.Take
Dr. King's New Discovery, relief fol-
lows quickly. It check3 your colld an
Rothes your cough away. Pleasant,
antiseptic and healing. Children like
net a 50c bottle of Dr. King's
New Discovery and keep it in the
house.
'octorr write
ol being over-burdened with
h'lwrthrophy. The market
piHce -for cotton is playing
around six cents, and it does not
'">k reasoT ?ble that they would
or.y the armer four cents more
per pound than he can get for his
product.
Such a situation as the pres-
ent, however, is what the big
houses havo long been looking
or. and it may '>e that they have
decidoc' th.it t.hi* is the proper
time to crush out the small town
merchant. They can afford to
bee millions to do this, and it
may be that this is what they are
now. preparing to do. If they
ran squeeze out the little home
merchant they can then slightly
'rcrease their prices and make
;t back in a few weeks.
The writer remembers an in-
'-tance a few years ago in San
Antonio, Texas. That city had
two small packing plants which
upplied the home demand and
that of surrounding towns.
When Armour and Morris
started their big plants at Fort
Worth, it was only a short time
until local butchers could buy
dressed beef from these big pack
ers cheaper than the home pack-
ers could buy beef on the hoof.
The result was that they soon
went out of business. Then Mr.
Morris and Mr. Armour began
to shove up the price of dressed
meats, and you can rest assured
that it did not take them long to
regain all they had lost by fur-
nishing cheap meats to the local
butchers.
When the local merchants go
down, your churches, your
schools, your lodged and your so-
ieties will go with them. They
ire the men who pay the big end
of the expenses in keeping these
institutions going, and if the peo-
ple of the community do not sup-
port them, the result will be that
they will go out of business and
the small towns which now dot
j ' he plains of Oklahoma and Tex-
3, will dwindle to two business
uses—the post office and the
blacksmith shop. Do you want
to see it ? If so send your money
to these mail order vultures.
Granite and turned it over to
him. receiving $100 in cash and
a note for the remained of the
agreed price of $275.
King left for the home of his
A\ther at Tuttle on Monday af-
ternoon, October 5th. and that
i:ght the machine was set on
fire in Mr. Price's yard and dam-
aged to some extent. It is sup-
posed that King went up the
road a few miles and returned,
sotting fire to the machine in
order to prevent its being iden-
tified. The fire, however, was
discovered and extinguished be-
fore the auto was very much
damaged.
This week the owner of the
ar, a well known live stock man
of Tuttle, was here and identi-
fied his car, which Mr. Price
turned over to him.
Acting on advices from this
place. King was arrested and
placed in jail at Chickasha. He
acknowledged his guilt, and it
is said, will plead guilty to the
harge against him.
While an inmate of the Re-
"ormatory, King was well liked
by the officials, he being a trusty
practically all of the time he was
here. He was sent up on a
charge of arson, he having con-
spired with others to burn a non-
union printing office at Chicka-
sha some years ago. He was a
printer by trade, and frequently
•ame in and helped in the me-
chanical department of The En-
terprise while here.
For the last year or more of j
his term here, King was in I
harge of the light plant at the
institution, he being an expert
electrician. He has a wife and
two children, who came to him
here, and were well liked by the
residents of the East Side among
whom they lived for several
months.
Mrs. King and children have
the sincere sympathy of their
former neighbors here, as she
'.s a noble Christian woman and
hd all in her power to keep her
erring husband straight.
ton grower can pmisibly get in
1915.
The cotton grower should
iant at l-a; t one acre of pas*
ur-' r.ght now. for every grown
ininial he owns Two ncres for
?srh animal are better than one.
Soft wheat furnishes the ear-
liest and best pasture in the cot-
ton region. Sow one bushel of
<eed to the acre. It you ha\e no
heat drill, v tw the ,-eed
broadcast in the cotton rows and
| cultivate it evenly at the same
depth you would plant corn or
cotton. I*on't wait until it rains
to sow thi« wheat. Stop picking
cotton right now, long enough
to do it.
Sow fall rye or winter oats
the same as wheat. One dollar'*
j credit i>*r nee! right now will
stop the need for $10 worth vf
rrcflit for feed later.
GRANITE ROUTE FOUR
Cotton picking is the order of
the day in this community.
Had a good rain the other
night and a norther is on now.
Guess the cotton pickers would
rather see it than rain. Isn't it
rartr%the 7" the,rr °!d Granite ha< >**" visited by
farmers have to g.ve th«r cot- Luite , number of cand;dates
tl e Granite gins had turned out
'J035 bales and were expecting to
! * .* the total of last year's crop
ly Saturday n:wht.
I-a-t season the total ginning*
at this place amounted to only
'.£368 bales.
There is still practically no
market {or the staple, though
Granite buyers were taking over
all that was offered at the pres-
ent price, which is playing about
«ix cent-
The /.merienn spot markets
ill show declines th.j ^'eeK, due
to the little foreign demand.
Up to Wednesday night, the
total foreign eports from Gal-
veston were 147.836 ag linst 737-
358 on the same date last year. •
Port receipts this sea;on up to
that time were 712,554 against
2,385,721 on the same date last
year.
The ginning has been distrib-
uted among the gins here as fol-
lows :
Potte Gin 268
Peoples Gin 5f
Farmers Gin 504
Tinsley & Slaton .... 740
CANDIDATES HERE
HAIL FRIDAY NIGHT
A severe hailstorm visited the
"Our family cough and cold section immediately north of
M WrnV ^ Chuan,ber,ain- Granite Friday night and did
Manchester Onto. Money back 1* not - . . .
hut it nearir .iw.v, help* "^'derable damage to cotton
: on the farms of Messrs. R. B.
-till a nice line of ladies and ,nd Lollis Gooch ,nd *k° th *
misses hats at the Millinery
■f John Matthewson. It is re-
Co., located at Oklahoma Citv. j — — - «<«/ < .. . .
whotc director, are men who'551"™ ported that about two«r batea
hvmUKk .« now put- (bonnM vMftr pLF G°Wh pU®
KEEP YOUR STOMACH AND
LIVER HEALTHY
A vigorous stomach, perfect work-
r-S !iver and regular acting bowels is
Guaranteed if you will use Dr. Kin's
NTew Life Pills. They insure good di-
Testion. correct constipation and have
excellent tonic effect on the whole
system—purify your blcod and nd
you of all body prisons through the
boweU. Only 25c at yur druggist.
TEN DOLLARS FOR ONE
The cotton farmer's chance to
"*iake money by quick action,
"otton isjow in price. Grain is
high and going higher. Every
cotton grower must choose, right
"ow. between growing his own
eed grains and forage, or ask-
ing for credit in order to buy
high priced corn.
riflt «h text thtrt? dsrt.
ton away and then buy it back
at. two or three prices if they
have anything to wear?
Glad to learn that the sick on
the route are about well. Ear-
nest Samples was real sick the
first of the week but is now im-
proving.
Leon Corcoran and family
spent Sunday with his father,
W. E. Corcoran, and to be with
his sister. Miss Alma, who was
>ut from Mangum to pay them
her last visit for awhile, as she
leaves Tuesday morning for
Cushing, Oklahoma, where she
will be at school for the next
three years.
Rev. Campbell held services
at Hopewell Sunday, preaching
to a good crowd.
Albert Hambright and Miss
Bessie Woods of Mangum, visit-
ed at the Corcoran home Sun-
day.
John Miller, of Mangum, has
moved to the ..Grandma Mayfield
place Co help pick the cotton crop
Mr. Ringer is making sor-
hum for himself and neighbors
this week.
Joe Caddel and Mr. Roach
have been cutting the farmers'
feed crops in this section the
past week.
There will be preaching at
Hopewell the third Sunday, we
understand. Everybody i in-
vited.
—Little Bird
state and district offices the
past week. On Fridav, John
Field, republican candidate for
Governor, made a talk to the
voters here. On Monday. Mr.
Simms, of Clinton, republican
candidate for congress, was here
and on Wednesday, John Hick-
am, progressive candidate for
governor, also addressed the vot-
ers here in the interest of his
candidacy. He devoted himself
mainly to denouncing the record
of John Fields, republican can-
lidate for governor. Mr. Hick-
nm was accompnied by Henry S.
Vogle, progressive candidate for
congress from this district who
also addressed the voters for a
short time.
MASONS BUY A BALE
SENATOR OWEN AT MANGUM
At its regular meeting Tues-
day night, Granite lodge No. 164
A. F. & A. M. voted to buy a
bale of cotton at ten cents per
oound, from J. A. Rice, a mem-
ber of this lodge since its-or-
ganization. The staple will be
'elivere 1 this week and turned
over to E. C. Foster, cotton
weigher, who will take care of
it until the lodge decides to dis-
pose of it.
HON. J. V. McCUNTIC HERE
United States Senator Robert
L. Owen will speak at Mangum lay afternoon at 3:30.
next Thursday afternoon at 2:30
This is one of the few dates that
senator could give to this section
" f the state, and The Enterprise
* ram e*ted to give the meeting
all the publicity possible that
those who desire to hecr him
nufe He <ft! MM.
Hon. J. V. McClintic. Demo-
cratic candidate for cqpglrefes.
was a Granite visitor Wedr.es-
dav afternoon. Mr. McClintle
is billed to speak here next Tues-
Cotne
out and hear him. as Jim is cer-
tain to be our next congressman
and we are all inte-^sted in
" hat he proposes to do for thi«
district He was accompanied
by Hon E B. Howard, cardi-
for state aqditor tfn tfte
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